A Momentous Decision

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Sun Oct 20 19:23:00 2002

It was thus said that the Great Huw Davies once stated:
>
> Most of my systems are network connected so they get names allocated, but
> sometimes the names reflect their usage. So the first network gateway box
> is called kerberos but the other gateway is adslgw. When I'm thinking about
> them I tend to say "I'm off to work on the Windows box, the Linux box, the
> VAX (even though it's an alpha whose host name is nimrod) and so on.

  The names I give are often puns or relect what I think of the machine in
some way. The two identical HPs I have (HP/Apollos 425) are tweedledee and
tweedledum. The two VAXs I've named (or will, once I get an OS installed
and running one of these days) HOOVER (a pun on the Vaxes made in England if
I remember---nothing sucks like them) and JEDGAR (since the other one is
HOOVE 8-)

  Then there's linus, my primary linux development system, and janet, the
firewall (named after the Janet airlines that serves Area-51, which is what
I originally named the firewall, but renamed when I decided to play around
with TLD in DNS and set up (internally) .area51) and tower, my colocated
server (since it's an NCR, and for whatever reason, when I think of NCR, I
think of an NCR Tower).

  -spc (And my Windows box is killjoy ... 8-P
Received on Sun Oct 20 2002 - 19:23:00 BST